Houses for rent in Menzel Djemil

The search that most often leads to this page is typed in Arabic: houses for rent in Menzel Djemil. It sums up the local market well. Here, people rent a house rather than a flat, a single-storey building or a ground floor with a yard, in a town where most families live under their own roof. The houses that come free belong to emigrants settled in Europe, to families who moved to Tunis, or to owners who built an upper floor and let out the old level.

Supply is thin: very few houses to rent are online, posted by private owners. Every house for rent in Menzel Djemil listed on Houni shows the owner's contact details, and you call them with no go-between. To widen the search to Bizerte, Ras Jebel or Menzel Bourguiba, see all the houses for rent in the Bizerte governorate.

The town and its two halves

Menzel Djemil Ouest and Menzel Djemil Est are the two sectors of the town, divided more by administration than by anything you would see on the ground. The layout is typical of mid-sized towns in the north: terraced houses packed around the centre, then, further out, newer houses on 200 to 400 m² plots, with a garden of a few olive trees or a lemon tree, a garage and often the slab of an upper floor waiting to be built. That kind of property makes up most of the house rentals in Menzel Djemil.

Menzel Abderrahmen Est, on the lake side, feels a little different: old houses in the original village, and newer builds towards the Zarzouna road. A house for rent in Menzel Abderrahmen appeals to people working in Bizerte who want a shorter commute, even if it costs a bit more.

Families, factory workers, civil servants

The typical tenant is a family with school-age children who want space at a rent Bizerte cannot offer. Next come employees from the industrial zones in the area, often two or three colleagues sharing, and civil servants posted to the governorate who prefer a quiet house to a flat in town. Rents are modest: a two or three bedroom house usually goes for 450 to 800 DT a month, depending on size, condition and whether there is a garage. A proper villa with a garden is the exception and gets negotiated case by case.

Yearly leases and the emigrants' summer

The market follows the family calendar. Demand peaks in late August and September, so people can move in before school starts. In July and August, many houses owned by emigrants are occupied by their owners, then put back on the rental market when they leave: September is often when the best houses appear.

Some owners offer a ten-month let only, so they can have the house back for the summer. If you want a house to rent by the year, say so on the first call and have it written into the lease. If a whole house is beyond your budget, an apartment for rent in Menzel Djemil, usually a self-contained upper floor, is the most common local alternative.

What to look at when you visit

A house that has been shut for months gives itself away as soon as you walk in: a damp smell, blistering paint, blackened grout in the bathroom. Near the lake, damp winters damage uninsulated walls; also check the flat roof, its waterproofing and how rainwater drains off.

Check whose name the STEG and SONEDE meters are in, and look at the latest paid bills. A tank on the roof is a real bonus in summer, when pressure drops. As for the contract, insist on a written lease registered at the tax office, stating the term, the rent, the deposit (usually one to two months) and who pays for repairs. Listings in every category, upper floors and houses together, are on the page of accommodation for rent in Menzel Djemil.